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Reconstructing a Medieval house in VlaardingenNine Archaeology students have built a reconstruction of an early medieval house in Vlaardingen. The house, built according to a houseplan discovered ...
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Unstoppable urbanisation of Indonesia calls for interdisciplinary partnershipsMore than half of the Indonesian population lives in cities. What does this mean for public health? How sustainable are these megacities? This is the ...
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Neanderthals used refined hunting techniques 120,000 years agoNeanderthals used careful techniques to hunt their prey at close range. This is the conclusion of an international team of archaeologists, including r...
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European subsidy for exchanges doubled at Leiden UniversityAlmost a hundred students and researchers can study in Leiden or go from Leiden to another university abroad as part of an exchange programme. Fourtee...
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Newly discovered barrrows under investigationMonday June 18th the department of European Prehistory of the Faculty of Archaeology started a five-year research (2018-2022) of two newly discovered ...
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European award for dissertation on Early Iron Age elite burialsIn 2017 Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof defended her dissertation on Early Iron Age elite burials of the Low Countries at the Faculty of Archaeology. Ou...
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Thinking outside your scientific boxHow do you study complex disasters like a nuclear explosion or a natural disaster? Who can help unravel the legal knot that Brexit has become? The imp...
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Archaeology students find 7th-century gravesTwo graves dating from the 7th century have been discovered during an archaeological excavation in Leiden. One of the graves was found by a student of...
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Leiden University Fund awards grantsOver thirty research projects have been awarded a grant from the Leiden University Fund (LUF). The academics each receive a sum of between 5,000 and 2...
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How can you rescue clay tablets from the war in Syria?On 7 June, the National Museum of Antiquities opened a mini exhibition 'Scanning for Syria'. The exhibition shows how Leiden archaeologists and Delft ...
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Role play in Maritime Archaeology classThis academic year Martijn Manders taught the course of Maritime Archaeology and cultural heritage management for the 8th year. Manders tries to make ...
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From practical cookbook session to practical research sessionHow do I conduct research? How do I structure, conduct and record what I’ve thought of and done? The Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences Programme didn’t just...
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Simulating the prehistoric use of fire through computer modelsArchaeologists often use the percentages of heat-affected stone or bone artifacts found at archaeological sites as a way to determine how frequently f...
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From a lecture to a whole day of archaeology field techniquesUntil last year the Archaeology Field Techniques programme for first-year students consisted of a number of two-hour lectures. Now they spend a whole ...
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Lewis Borck's Leiden experience: "Theories and methods brought me in first"One and half years ago, Lewis Borck exchanged the arid and hot Southwest of the USA for the Netherlands. While an expert in Ancestral Pueblo and Hohok...